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"A Powerful book of adventure and faith" - FRANK SCHAEFFER, New York Times best selling author of fiction and nonfiction"A fast-paced, tightly-plotted religious mystery with genuine spirituality at its core."
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Out of today's headlines: Russia, Vladimir Putin's Crucifix, The United States, and a prophecy from the Virgin Mary who is urgently pleading to world to be ready for God.
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James L. Carney has been a Catholic catechist for more than ten years. He is an honors graduate of Spring Hill College and a graduate of Harvard Law School. Jim is a former assistant professor of law and assistant dean. He is an award-winning essayist on the subject of the morality of nuclear war and has lectured at the U.S. Army Chaplains' School. He is the author of "The Seton Miracles, Weeping Statues and Other Wonders", and "Mystery Stories: A Journey Through the Rosary".

Mrs. Christine Watkins, MTS, LCSW, formerly an anti-Christian atheist, converted to Catholicism after receiving a miraculous healing from Jesus through Mary, which saved her from death. Moving away from her previous life as a professional ballet dancer with the San Francisco Ballet Company, she began a life of service to the Church and now has over ten years experience as a spiritual director, licensed counselor, retreat leader, and popular inspirational speaker. She has been featured on the radio and the FOCUS Television Network, and her remarkable new book, Full of Grace: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Conversion through Mary’s Intercession,is now a best-seller for Ave Maria Press

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Christina Georgotas has just completed a sensational new documentary about the events taking place in Medjugorje.
The film,“Queen of Peace”, is the first documentary produced by Bambiina Productions. Interweaving never-before-seen archival footage from the early days of the apparitions, with exclusive interviews with the visionaries themselves, “Queen of Peace” give an unparalleled account of the events taking place in Medjugorje.
To learn more about the documentary go to http://medjfilms.com/

Brother John M. Samaha - SM

Brother John belongs to the Pacific Province of the Marianists, and is currently working at Villa St Joseph in Cupertino, Calif. Previously he was engaged in high school and adult education in the western states and Lebanon. He is a member and officer of the Mariological Society of America

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Davide A. Bianchini has recently entered seminay at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, Mo.
Davide has done some amazing work for the Blessed Mother and Medjugorje . His contributions at www.medjugorje-apologia.com are considered a leading academic resource

Media Elites Promotion of the Novella The Testament of Mary Has Suspicious Motivations

By Stephen Ryan

What’s the difference between the liberal media elite promoters of the novella “The Testament of Mary” and Holocaust deniers?

The answer: NOTHING

Really, nothing.

The New Yorker, New York Times, Time Magazine, to name just a few, have all piled on praise of the book “The Testament of Mary”; a book that denies the divinity of Christ - in fact no stone has not been unturned by the media elite in their efforts to promote the fictional demeaning account of the Virgin Mary.

Many Catholics, recently, have come out and expressed their concerns about the book and a new play opening soon in New York City has led to an organized protest. see here a ptotest movemet

The book about the Virgin Mary is fiction, but at times, one needs to dig deep in book reviews, to get that piece of information.

My parents read all the glowing reviews. They knew that I had an interest in the Virgin Mary and so they bought me the book believing it was a must read non-fiction title about the Mother of Christ. “Everybody is reading it, Stephen” they told me. That the subject of Mary was now trendy, mildly relieved my parent’s concern about my new interest in faith and the Virgin Mary.

I handed the book back to them and told them I knew a lot about the book. I told them it was drivel and that I was not interested in the fantasies of a playwright’s fictional account of the Virgin Mary.

Christians are accustomed to getting bashed; the subject of my faith is the last sanctuary where polite company can bellow bigoted proclamations against Catholics and be applauded for it. But the incredible genuflecting aimed at the book written by Colm Toibin by the New York intelligentsia is nothing short of a miracle.Why a short book of fiction, which has but one agenda, and that is to call into question (again) the divinity of Christ, has achieved such colossal publicity is stupefying and, in many ways, remains an unanswered question.

To be clear, I am not condemning the book or Colm Toibin – I do believe strongly in freedom of expression - but rather I am at a loss for words to explain where the universal shout out comes from. I cannot help but wonder about the motivation. Is the book THAT good - or is the premise just too juicy to ignore?

Have the New York elites stopped for one minute and asked themselves why they are so committed to singing the praises of the book? As a group, they act like Romans at the Coliseum watching early Christians get eaten by lions. They are not exactly sure why the Christian are getting eaten, but hey, everybody is here, and all the right people seem to be enjoying the show.

In a more serious point, imagine for one minute, the entire secular mainstream media singing the praises of a fictional account of the holocaust that called into question the scale of the event.

What if a book was written by a fictional brother of say, Elie Wiesel, author of “Night”, who muses on about his brother’s obsession with publicity – that from a young age he wanted to be rich and famous, and that he was prone to fantasies and embellishments.

The author of such a book would be immediately labeled a hate monger and any media outlet that supported the work would by tainted with the stain of bigotry.

To many Catholics, the Virgin Mary is sacrosanct, and to them Colm Toibin’s book is blasphemy.

But The New York media, instead of ignoring the book, they double down, and accuse their critics of narrow mindedness. They say, we don’t get the satire. They say we are guilty of calling for censoring artistic expressions.

But when it comes to satire and freedom of expression – one man’s artistic freedoms are another man’s bigotry.For many, the heavy publicity, for a work that in effect denies the divinity of Christ, is a big deal just as the denial of the holocaust is a big deal.